Fizz

Definition: Fizz

Fizz

Noun

1. An effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic).

Verb

1. Of liquids; "The boiling soup was frothing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fizz" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonyms: Fizz

Crosswords: Fizz

Runnin' home, tellin' your friends lil' Fizz is it (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K)

Shakes shows until they fizz up (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

A New Waiter Opening a Fizz (1897)

Books

• Bucks Fizz (reference)

• Fizz (reference)

• Fizz & Martina in the incredible not-for-profit pet resort mystery (reference)

• Flash! Bang! Pop! Fizz!: Exciting Science for Curious Minds (reference)

• The fizz inside : critical essays of a lighter kind (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jancis Robinson's Wine Course - Fizz and Grape Invaders (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fizz You Up (reference)

• Here Come the Girls, Vol. 9: Slow Fizz (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Health

Drink cool, clear, unsweetened fruit juices, such as apple or grape juice or light-colored sodas such as ginger ale that have lost their fizz and do not have caffeine. (references)

Expression using "fizz": fizz up. Additional references.

Ending with "fizz": c-fizz.

Albanian

fishkëllimë e lehtë, vërshëllen (fizzle out), shkumbëzim, pije e gazuar, gazozë (effervescent drink, fizzy drink, soda pop). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فور (effervesce, sink), ‏صوت الفوران, ‏جيش (army, force, legion, recruit), ‏أز (boom, buzz, ping, roar, sing, sizzle, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz), ‏شراب فوار (phosphate, pop). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съскане (hiss, hissing, splutter), съскам (fizzle, hiss, swear), шампанско (bubbly, champagne, the widow), пеня се (bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, foam, froth, froth up, fume, lather, scum, spume), пенене (effervescence, effervescency). (various references)

Czech

šumìt (bubble, effervesce, swash, whisper), šumìní (effervescence, effervescency, swish). (various references)

Danish

syden, brusen. (various references)

Dutch

spontaan aan de oppervlakte komende aardolie. (various references)

Finnish

yhtäkkinen kaasuvuoto, pihistä (sizzle), kihistä (be alive, be teeming, sizzle), kaasupurkaus. (various references)

French

pétiller (fizzle), mousser, champ (field), boisson gazeuse. (various references)

German

zischen (hiss, fizzling, sibilance, sizzle). (various references)

Greek 

σφυρίζω (hiss, whistle), ποτό εν βραζμώ, άφρισμα (foaming, frothing), αναβρασμός (blocking, boiling, plugging, poling), αφρίζων ποτό, τσιρίζω (splutter, sputter, stridulate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתסוס (bubble, ferment, foam, seethe, simmer, sparkle), לאוש (fizzle, rustle), תסיסה (agitation, effervescence, excitement, ferment, fermentation, turbulence, zymosis), תסס (enzyme, ferment, zyme), קצף (foam, froth, frothiness, spume, yeast), אושה (bruit, fizzle, hiss, murmur, rustle, sound, whisper). (various references)

Hungarian

sistergés (fizzle, sizzle, sizzling), pezsgő (bubbly, fizzy), pezseg (to fizz). (various references)

Indonesian

bergelembung-gelembung. (various references)

Italian

frizzare (fizzle, smart, tingle), spumeggiare (bubble, effervesce, fizzle, foam, froth, sparkle), spumante (sparkling wine), sibilo (hiss, ping, whistle, whiz, zing, zip), petrolio che scaturisce spontaneamente da un pozzo, effervescenza (to flare up), bevanda (drink, beverage). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ジョセフソン素子 (a stein, a tankard, amug, bit by bit, cardigan, dilemma, dilettante, dish with mutton and vegetables, Genghis Khan, gin, gin fizz, ginger, ginger ale, giraffe, jin, jingoism, jinx, jitterbug, job, job enlargement, job enrichment, job menu, job rotation, job title, jobhopper, jockey, jodhpurs, John, John Bull, John Travolta, Josephson device, riding breeches, suit, suitcase, super, super high decker, super Schottky diode, super size wide screen, super woofer, supercar, supercharger, supercomputer, superhighway, superimpose, superjet, supermarket, supermarket chain, supernova, super-size, supersonic, superstar, superstation, superstore, supertanker, superviser, supervisor, superwoman, synthesis, vest, waistcoat, Zimbabwe, Zinjanthropus, zirconium). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ジンフィーズ (gin fizz). (various references)

Manx

kialg (calculation, craftiness, deceit, duplicity, fiddle, guile, insidiousness, perfidiousness, sedition, subtlety, swindle, swizzle, treachery), keshal (effervesce, effervescence, foam, foaming, froth, frothing, lather, lathering), kesh (foam, froth, lather, scum, suds). (various references)

Norwegian

skumme (foam, froth, lather), bruse. (various references)

Pig Latin

izzfay.(various references)

Portuguese

zumbir (buzz, hum), zumbido (buzz, hum), silvo (hiss), silvar (hiss, ping, pipe, scream, swish, whistle), petróleo saído espontaneamente de um poço, petróleo que jorra de um poço, espumar (boil, cream, foam, froth, lathe, lather, mantle, prime, sparkle), efervescer (bubble, effervesce), efervecsência, crepitar (crepitate, crisp, decrepitate, rattle, snap, splutter, sputter), crepitação (crackle, crepitation), champanhe (champagne), assobio (whistle). (various references)

Romanian

fierbere (agitation, boil, boiling, brewage, commotion, ebullition, effervescence, effervescency, emotion, fermentation, fever, gurgitation, tumult), fierbe (boil), face spumã (churn, cream, foam, froth, scum), fâşâit (fizzle, rustle, rustling), vioiciune (alacrity, alertness, briskness, buoyancy, fling, go, hoity toity, jazz, life, liveliness, perkiness, pertness, quickness, snap, sprightliness, vivacity), şampanie (champagne). (various references)

Russian 

шипеть (sizzle, splutter), шипение (hiss, hissing, sibilance, sizzle, splutter, sputter), газированный напиток. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fiz, peniti se (foam, froth), šištati (hiss, sibilate, wheeze). (various references)

Spanish

ruido sibilante, petróleo que brota espontáneamente de un pozo, hacer un ruido sibilante, efervescencia (effervescence). (various references)

Swedish

fräsa (hiss, spit, sputter), champagne (champagne, pop). (various references)

Thai

ส่งเสียงดังฟู่ (fizz up). (various references)

Turkish

fışırtı (fizzle, splash), fışırdamak (fizzle), soda fışkırtılarak yapılan kokteyl, soda (bicarbonate of soda, carbonated water, soda, soda water), köpürmek (be hopping mad, boil, boil over, bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, explode, fly off the handle, foam, froth, lather, rage, ramp, ramp and rage, seethe, sparkle, yeast), köpürme (blast, blaze, effervescence, foaming, froth, frothiness, rage), gazlı içeçek, şampanya (champagne), ateş püskürmek (be angry, fulminate, harrumph, rant, spit fire). (various references)

Ukrainian

шипіти (hiss, sibilate, sizzle, splutter), шипіння (effervescence, effervescency, hiss, hissing, sizzle, splutter), пінитися (cream, effervesce, foam, froth, mantle, ream, scum, spume). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng xèo xèo (fizzle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fizz": fizzed, fizzer, fizzers, fizzes, fizzier, fizziest, fizzing, fizzle, fizzled, fizzles, fizzling, fizzy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fizz" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bizz, bizzy, faz, fazzi, Feyyaz, feza, fezs, fezz, Fiaz, Ficz, firz, fiss, Fiuza, fiz, fiza, fize, fizt, fizy, fizzo, fizzog, Fuiza, fytz, fyz, fz, gizz, iftz, Izzi, Izzz, mizz, Zizzo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fiz.

-2 letters: if.

+1 letter: fizzy, frizz.

+2 letters: fizzed, fizzer, fizzes, fizzle, frizzy.

+3 letters: fizzers, fizzier, fizzing, fizzled, fizzles, frizzed, frizzer, frizzes, frizzle, frizzly, fuzzier, fuzzily, fuzzing.

+4 letters: fizziest, fizzling, frizzers, frizzier, frizzily, frizzing, frizzled, frizzler, frizzles, fuzziest.

+5 letters: frazzling, frizziest, frizzlers, frizzlier, frizzling, fuzziness.